Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron...
by brudgers on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:31PM
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Atwood is smart, but the social sophistication of StackOverflow mostly came from Spolsky. I don't know if they are still available, but Atwood and Spolsky had a regular phone call that went out as a podcast from the earliest days of the StackOverflow project.
In terms of the social structure of Spolsky thought "How do I move the Turtle in LOGO" [1] was a good question for the site (he wrote it).
Atwood thought it was a bad question. Judging people's character by the questions they ask became standard. And people have an excuse to be rude and abusive on the site.
In terms of the social structure of Spolsky thought "How do I move the Turtle in LOGO" [1] was a good question for the site (he wrote it).
Atwood thought it was a bad question. Judging people's character by the questions they ask became standard. And people have an excuse to be rude and abusive on the site.
Which is unfortunate.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-th...